remote command word splitting

[Darren Tucker]

Frederik Eaton wrote:
>>You'd also have to set up the user's environment (PATH and whatnot), 
>>which probably involves parsing various startup files.  Hey, that sounds 
>>a lot like what a shell does...
> 
> That's why I invoke a shell in my example...

Sure (although your example doesn't seem to work in any shell I tried, 
which is it intended for?), but there's no guarantee that the user is 
always going to invoke a shell in the command line they send.

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